Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing Specimens and Examples of School and College Exercises, and Most of the Higher Departments of English Composition, Both in Prose and VerseHarper & Brothers, 1845 - 429 pages |
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... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
... truth and delicacy of his sensibility . The object of this lesson is to make the student acquainted with the constituent parts and members of sentences , both simple and compound . The exercises that are subjoined , AIDS TO ENGLISH ...
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... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . • diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my ...
... truth , that the Creation is a Perpetual feast To the mind of a Good man . • diligence , industry , and Proper improvement Of time , Are Material duties of the Young ; but the young Often Neglect These duties . how often shall my ...
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... truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent ...
... truth of poets admiration . Saint Peter is painted with the keys Paul with a sword Andrew with a cross James the Greater with a pilgrim's staff and a gourd bottle James the Less with a fuller's pole John with a cup and a winged serpent ...
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... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
... truth is a plain and it is a safe path that of falsehood is a perplexing maze . Do not flatter yourself with the idea of enjoying perfect happiness for there is no such thing in the world . Were all books reduced to their quintessence ...
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... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
... truth is , that no better reason can be given for the use or omission of the hyphen , than caprice . † The student who wishes to study this department of etymology , will find it more fully displayed in Horne Tooke's " Diversions of ...
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accent acute accent adverb Allowable rhymes Antonomasia beauty cæsura called Catachresis character clause comma composition compound compound sentence consists derived earth effect English English language Example 1st Example 2d exercise expression eyes father feelings figure following sentence Francesco Doria frequently give grave accent Greek Greek language happiness heart honor idea imagination kind labor lady language Latin Latin language letter literary look manner means mind moral nature Nearly perfect rhymes never nouns and third object observed Onomatopoeia participles of verbs phrases pleasure Pleonasm plurals of nouns poet poetical poetry present preterits and participles principles pronoun proper proposition prose remarkable rule Saxon sense short signifies sometimes sound spirit Spondee student style syllable tautology thing third persons singular thou thought tion Trochaic Trochee truth verse virtue words writer written young